Institute calls for high-level strategy for UK’s strategic road network

With Britain’s busy roads accounting for 90 per cent of motorised travel in the UK for business and leisure purposes, the UK’s Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) is calling on the Government to speed up its development of a proper high level strategy and funding package for Britain’s strategic roads network. Steve Agg, chief executive of CILT, said: ‘The strategic road network is vital to the efficiency of transport and its contribution to economic growth. Developing a long-term strateg
September 3, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
With Britain’s busy roads accounting for 90 per cent of motorised travel in the UK for business and leisure purposes, the UK’s 6500 Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) is calling on the Government to speed up its development of a proper high level strategy and funding package for Britain’s strategic roads network.

Steve Agg, chief executive of CILT, said: ‘The strategic road network is vital to the efficiency of transport and its contribution to economic growth.  Developing a long-term strategy for our roads network and an appropriate funding package, as applies to rail, is long overdue.’

The Institute also recommends that the Government makes contingencies for a sizeable expansion in tax-free electrically-powered vehicles and the likely fall-off in revenues – and be clear about the role of tolling and road-user charging implied in its current study of new ownership and financing models.

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